English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Complete Edition (Vol. 1&2)By John Ashton
Length15h 38m
About this audiobook
English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I is a richly documented study of the visual war waged in Britain against Napoleon, tracing how prints, broadsides, and comic imagery transformed the French emperor into a figure of menace, absurdity, and theatrical ambition. Ashton combines antiquarian exactness with a lively narrative style, situating works by Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshank, and their contemporaries within the political anxieties of invasion, empire, and national identity that shaped Georgian and Regency satire. John Ashton, a prolific Victorian writer and social historian, was especially drawn to the neglected ephemera of everyday culture: chapbooks, ballads, street literature, prints, and popular entertainments. His antiquarian instincts led him to treat caricature not as disposable amusement but as historical evidence, revealing public sentiment and political imagination. Writing from a later nineteenth-century vantage point, he preserves a visual culture already becoming rare and interprets it with both patriotic curiosity and archival care. This book is recommended to readers interested in Napoleon's afterlife in British culture, the history of political satire, or the relationship between art and propaganda. It remains valuable as both a catalogue of images and a commentary on how nations ridicule their enemies.
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GenreHistory
Length15 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 29, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26CHAPTER XXIV.
2Volume 1
27CHAPTER XXV.
3CHAPTER I.
28CHAPTER XXVI.
4CHAPTER II.
29CHAPTER XXVII.
5CHAPTER III.
30CHAPTER XXVIII.
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6CHAPTER IV.
31CHAPTER XXIX.
7CHAPTER V.
32CHAPTER XXX.
8CHAPTER VI.
33CHAPTER XXXI.
9CHAPTER VII.
34CHAPTER XXXII.
10CHAPTER VIII.
35CHAPTER XXXIII.
11CHAPTER IX.
36CHAPTER XXXIV.
12CHAPTER X.
37CHAPTER XXXV.
13CHAPTER XI.
38CHAPTER XXXVI.
14CHAPTER XII.
39CHAPTER XXXVII.
15CHAPTER XIII.
40Volume 2
16CHAPTER XIV.
41CHAPTER XXXVIII.
17CHAPTER XV.
42CHAPTER XXXIX.
18CHAPTER XVI.
43CHAPTER XL.
19CHAPTER XVII.
44CHAPTER XLI.
20CHAPTER XVIII.
45CHAPTER XLII.
21CHAPTER XIX.
46CHAPTER XLIII.
22CHAPTER XX.
47CHAPTER XLIV.
23CHAPTER XXI.
48CHAPTER XLV.
24CHAPTER XXII.
49CHAPTER XLVI.
25CHAPTER XXIII.
50CHAPTER XLVII.
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